A DUDEFOOD Style Birthday Party…..

dudefood — Mon, 21 May 2012 15:00:56 +0000

This weekend DUDEFOOD had the good fortune of catering a birthday for a great group of guys. The party was organized by the birthday boys wife and it was just the kind of celebration that DUDEFOOD was created for, a small group of fellas hanging out celebrating a birthday having a few adult beverages and enjoying some great food before the party guests started an all out poker game. The menu consisted of

CARAMELIZED ONION AND BACON DIP

ROASTED GARLIC DIP

SMOKED CHICKEN WINGS

GRILLED CAESAR SALAD

GRILLED SEASONAL VEGETABLES

GRILLED TRI TIP WITH CHIMICHURRI

ROASTED GARLIC MASHED POTATOES

CARAMELIZED ONION AND BACON DIP WITH ROASTED GARLIC DIP

GRILLED TRI TIP WITH CHIMICHURRI

The food turned out great and everyone was happy and excited about the food options. We want to thank our clients for allowing DUDEFOOD to be part of a great night. If you have a party coming up, look no farther than DUDEFOOD to take care of all the shopping, cooking, serving, and cleaning for you and your guests.

Cinco De Mayo Recap….

dudefood — Tue, 08 May 2012 16:28:04 +0000

This past weekend DUDEFOOD had the opportunity to cater a Cinco De Mayo party and a great time was had by all. Sure the party was great but the food was the talk of the afternoon for sure. DUDEFOOD prepared a great menu of tasty Mexican food delights consisting of

POLLO ASADA TACOS

AUTHENTIC CARNITAS TACOS

FRESH MADE ROASTED RED AND GREEN SALSA’S

DUDEFOOD GUACAMOLE

ROASTED CORN AND AVOCADO SALAD

MEXICAN RICE AND BEANS

ROASTED RED AND GREEN SALSA

CARNITAS BURRITO

An day like this proves that there is no event that DUDEFOOD can’t handle so if you are looking for a caterer to provide great food and great service look no further than DUDEFOOD. Email us today and we can get get started planning your next event.

Burger Tips And Fox 40……

dudefood — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 21:24:45 +0000

Hopefully you got to see DUDEFOOD live on FOX 40 making some delicious hand made burgers. If you did miss it, don’t worry, we will post the video as soon as it’s available. Until then, here are some of the tips we offered during the segment.

Everybody loves burgers and everybody loves burgers that are done with care and patience. So DUDEFOOD chooses to grind and form our burgers by hand, using some of the finest beef we can find to make sure that you will have one of the tastiest, juiciest, and most memorable burgers.

If you are new to making your own burgers here are a few tips to remember so your burgers will always be the talk of the meal:

Find a combination of meats that work for your burger blend. Some popular cuts of beef for burgers are brisket, chuck, sirloin, short rib, and skirt steak. My mixture of choice is 60/40 chuck to sirloin.

When grinding your meat, make sure both the meat and grinder parts are cold so the meat does not get gummy going through grinder. Place the meat, mixing bowl and metal grinder piece in the freezer for 30 minutes before grinding.

Do not over work your meat when forming your patties. I like to use a ring mold and form patties and just loosely fill the inside of ring mold. Using a ring mold helps to make sure that all burgers are uniform in size, shape, and this helps to even out cooking time.

You do not have to add a million toppings to your burger. If you are making the effort to purchase good quality meat and grinding it yourself, don’t mask those delicious meat flavors by adding too many toppings. Be creative but use a little restraint when you can.

And last but not least – do not over cook your burger! There is nothing worse than a burger that you thought was going to be moist and delicious that turns out to be an over cooked hockey puck. Burgers should never be cooked more than medium rare. This assures you get all those great beef flavors.

How Do You DudeFood Contest

dudefood — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 15:21:23 +0000

Do you have an event coming up that would be a perfect fit for DudeFood? Tell us about it and you could win $150 credit toward your event. We want to take your party and make it a DudeFood party. Visit our CONTEST page for all the details and to enter. Enter now through May 1st and the winner will be announced on May 2nd! Good luck and we can’t wait to hear all about your events.

St. Patricks Day Recap

dudefood — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 21:35:24 +0000

Around our house St. Patrick’s Day is one of our favorite holidays because I love corned beef and having a great time with our friends. This year was no different because I whipped up some delicious corned beef and we got to spend time with a lot of great friends.

For St. Patrick’s Day this year I was determined to make some fantastic corned beef and that means getting it in a brine about 4 days before the big day. The brine consisted of water, salt, sugar and pickling spices. This was my first experience brining and it was very successful. When we were ready to cook the beef, I rinsed the meat and braised it with water, onions, carrots, celery, and more pickling spices. The meat cooked for about 4 hours and it came out tender and juicy. Since we were going for the authentic Irish feel, we had to have cabbage and potatoes, so when the meat was done and resting I cooked the cabbage and potatoes in the braising liquid the meat cooked in. And while the cabbage and potatoes were a little boring to look at they tasted fantastic.

CORNED BEEF AND CABBAGE

The dinner was great and just what you need when celebrating St. Patrick’s Day. To go along with the corned beef I made a tasty batch of horseradish cream that worked great with our dinner. The best part of this Irish feast was the leftover corned beef we had the next day. That beef was used for delicious rueben sandwiches complete with sauerkraut and homemade Russian dressing. I hate to say it but the sandwiches were almost more exciting than the original dinner.

HOMEMADE RUEBEN SANDWICH

Leftovers For Breakfast?

dudefood — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 21:44:11 +0000

That’s right, leftovers for breakfast. I love to be creative in the kitchen and one of my favorite meals to be creative with is breakfast. Last week we had a delicious dinner of roasted chicken and mashed potatoes and instead of heating up the leftovers for lunch I decided to whip a delicious breakfast. I took the left over potatoes and formed them into a patty and fried them in a pan after crisping up some bacon. After the potato cakes were crisped up I sauteed some spinach and added the bacon.

The breakfast was great and a lot of fun to make. It was made even better by having a nice runny egg served next to it. Next time you have leftovers be creative and make a new meal with your old meal. If you need a few suggestions of what to do with your leftovers just drop DUDEFOOD an email and we can definitely help you out.

Sac Beer and Chili Festival

dudefood — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 23:38:01 +0000

This past weekend, DudeFood competed in the first annual Sacramento Beer and Chili Festival. The Sacramento Artists Council, in partnership with Sacramento Press and Dad’s Kitchen, put on the Inaugural Sacramento Beer & Chili Festival. The event raised money for art programs that assist at-risk children, children of homeless families and funds adopt a school art program for Sacramento Regional Schools.

DudeFood competed with other local chefs and home-cooks to see whose chili was the best in the area. We decided to go outside the box and made our famous Chili Verde. Three kinds of peppers, tomatillos, cilantro, lime, green onion and lots and lots of love!

The event was held at Southside Park in downtown Sacramento and kicked off bright and early at 6:45 AM. Teams perfected their recipes until noon when hungry people lined up and sample the offerings. The lines were long, the customers were happy and we got rave reviews on the unique take on chili.

The results? DudeFood came in 2nd in our category as voted on by three judges. But what really mattered to us were how many people we saw coming up for seconds and commenting on how much they liked our chili. Each serving was finished off with a squeeze of fresh lime juice and some fresh cilantro to give it that bit of freshness chili so often needs.

All in all, a great day for a great cause and we look forward to future competitionS around the area.

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What A SUPER Weekend

dudefood — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:38:31 +0000

It was another busy weekend for DUDEFOOD full of T.V appearances, smoking meats, and catering a great super bowl party. It started Friday morning with a live cooking performance on Fox 40 morning show. It was great to kick off super bowl weekend with some great appetizers.

ON THE SET OF FOX 40

ROASTED GARLIC DIP WITH HOMEMADE ONION RINGS

CRABBY POTATO BITES

Saturday was busy with prepping for Sunday’s festivities and getting ready to smoke a brisket. The brisket was delicous and well worth the 14 hours of tending to the smoker. The brisket was loved by everyone who tried at our clients party on Sunday.

14 HOURS SMOKED BRISKET

SMOKED CHICKEN WINGS

The party we catered on Sunday was great. Everyone had a lot of great food to eat like brisket, smoked chicken wings, roasted garlic dip, and bean dip. The food must of been good since there were no leftovers.

What a busy weekend but to us at DUDEFOOD that’s the way we like it. If you are getting ready to have a party look further than DUDEFOOD to take care shopping, cooking, serving, and cleaning up.

Catching Up With DUDEFOOD…..

dudefood — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:16:19 +0000

It’s been awhile since DUDEFOOD posted something new, but don’t worry because we have been working hard perfecting our skills to provide our clients with some exciting new options for your next event.

What exactly have we been perfecting? How about some delicious smoked meats and tasty homemade sausages! We have spent a lot of time in the DUDEFOOD kitchens to perfect our recipes and now they are ready to serve you and your friends at your next party.

Here are some pictures of our last sausage making expierments

TOASTED SPICES FOR HOMEMADE SAUSAGES

PORK SAUSAGE

Don’t forget that DUDEFOOD will be doing a live cooking segment on February 3rd to kick off Super Bowl weekend so make sure to tune in to FOX 40 around 9:50 AM and let us know what you think.

Sandwich Of The Week: Grilled Mac and Cheese

dudefood — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 22:15:26 +0000

That’s right, I said grilled mac and cheese sandwich! It’s been cold outside lately which means it’s the perfect time for cheesy, gooey, and toasty warm sandwiches. Of course DUDEFOOD can’t just do the regular processed cheese and white bread sandwich, we had to make it special.

To make it a DUDEFOOD grilled cheese we used our original recipe Mac and Cheese along with more cheese(since the 4 cheeses in the Mac weren’t enough). For this sandwich sliced fontina was what was on hand, which was great because fontina melts perfectly. I thought that the sandwich needed some meat to cut the cheesiness of this toasty delight so I used a few slices of deli pastrami and if that wasn’t enough how about some caramelized onions to add some sweetness to sandwich.

GRILLED MAC AND CHEESE, PASTRAMI SANDWICH

This sandwich was great, it was just what the doctor ordered on a chilly winter day. Next time your going to make a boring grilled cheese sandwich be creative and have fun and you might just end up with a masterpiece like this one.